Arctacanthus
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Superorder: | Selachimorpha |
| Order: | †Hybodontiformes |
| Superfamily: | †Hybodontoidea |
| Genus: | †Arctacanthus Nielsen 1932 |
Arctacanthus is an extinct genus of cartilaginous fish from the Permian and possibly Triassic period. It is known by two described species from the Permian, A. uncinatus and A. wyomingensis. The former was described from Greenland while the latter was described from the United States. They are known only by isolated hook-shaped "Icthyoliths" thought to represent dermal denticles of a chimaera. Some have attributed these to teeth or hybodont cephalic spines. Similar ichthyoliths of much smaller size have been found in Japan and China in rocks of Anisian age. The large difference in age, location, and size means their attribution to this genus is uncertain; nonetheless, the species A. exiguus was named in Japan.[1][2]
References[]
- ^ Lide Chen, Gilles Cuny & Xiaofeng Wang (2007) The chondrichthyan fauna from the Middle-Late Triassic of Guanling (Guizhou province, SW China), Historical Biology, 19:4, 291-300, DOI: 10.1080/08912960701248234
- ^ Yamagishi, H. (2004). Elasmobranch remains from the Taho limestone (lower-Middle Triassic) of Ehime prefecture, Southwest Japan. Mesozoic fishes, 3, 565-574.
Categories:
- Prehistoric cartilaginous fish genera